Tag Archives: Privacy

While President Barack Obama’s speech this weekend promised reforms, there are members of the tech industry who aren’t quite so happy with it.
While the speech focused on things like the metadata collection of phone c...

The New America Foundation (NAF) have written a report in which they say that the bulk surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA), has “no discernible impact” on preventing terrorist actions.
The rep...

A few days back , Google released a new integration feature for Google+ and Gmail that allows anyone from Google+ to email you — without having to know your email address. This features is supposed to make it easier for Goog...

Another meeting was held between the White House and members of the tech industry on Friday.
Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo and Google were represented at a meeting to discuss details on changes that are going to be made, hopefully, i...

A new feature added by Google will allow anyone with a Gmail and Google+ account to send emails to anyone else on the social network.
More specifically, a new feature by Google integrates Gmail and Google+ as such that, when crea...

Target has just announced that during the hack they suffered in November, along with millions of credit card numbers, personal information for “up to 70 million” people was taken as well. This information includes nam...

Google has received a $204,000 fine from France for violating privacy laws.
The internet titan was awarded the fine by France’s independent watchdog group, the National Commission on Computing and Freedom (CNIL). It took a ...

Edward Snowden has been asked by the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) committee, which acts on behalf of the European Parliament, to help in their investigation of the NSA and NSA’s surveillance program.
LIB...

In response to the fact that millions of names and phone numbers were stolen, Snapchat is allowing you to unlink your phone number from your Snapchat account by opting out of the Find Friends feature. This change takes effect in ...

On January 3, US Senator Bernie Sanders wrote a letter to the NSA which essentially asked if the NSA is spying on or did spy on members of the United States Congress. The National Security Agency (NSA) has now released a statemen...

According to the Washington Post, it seems that the US government — the National Security Agency (NSA) in particular — is working on a quantum computer which would be able to crack all the encryption that the public u...

A class action lawsuit is being levied against Facebook for the alleged violation of the privacy rights of its members. Those filing the lawsuit are saying that their private messages are being intercepted by Facebook and the dat...

Apple has flat-out denied any knowledge of the NSA installing backdoors into the iPhone’s software.
This comes in response to an article in Der Spiegel in which it is stated that analysts from the NSA have called iPhone use...

Through an op-ed piece written on Wednesday night, The New York Times has officially come out and said that they believe that Edward Snowden should receive clemency.
The New York Times is one of America’s most influential n...